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Is "made up someone's mind" an idiom? What are the similar expression of this?

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Rebecca

Yes it is! "Made up my mind" is an idiomatic expression that means to make a decision that cannot be easily changed. In this video, he made a decision that his children would know who their father was because he didn't know his father as a child. Similar expressions to "made up my mind" would be "reached a decision," "concluded," "committed myself," "set my sights on," "pursued," etc. Ex: She made up her mind to go to college. Ex: I committed myself to exercising daily. Ex: My sights are set on getting a degree in biology. Ex: I reached a decision that I would never smoke a cigarette.

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